Last Frontiers Of The Mind

Author : MOHANDAS MOSES
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788120328518

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LAST FRONTIERS OF THE MIND by MOHANDAS MOSES Pdf

In this original and brilliantly written book, Mohandas Moses has embarked on a daring theme-the challenge of artificial intelligence to the human mind and human creativity. The mind, he says, is the greatest invention in the universe; it has created the greatest works of art and science: its dimensions and potential are yet to be fathomed. But now the marvellous human mind stands challenged by the machine. To illustrate the central theme of his book, the author has brought together the views of a galaxy of eminent philosophers, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists who have explored the phenomenon and evolution of the human mind and consciousness, and the growth of Artificial Intelligence. The author describes the contribution made by the 'Artificial Intelligentsia', the human-computer interaction, and emphasizes the formidable power of the machine mind to usurp the grandeur of the human mind. He has described the manner in which memory, language, creativity, mathematics, teaching-learning and chess-playing could be altered by the digital culture. He says that 'the question we need to ask ourselves as thinking men is-would we like to sense sensations, experience experiences and think thoughts with under-standing as human beings should or are our personas to be blue matched to the template of the machine mind?' With erudition and wry humour the author takes the reader on a fascinating journey of exploration. Written with brilliance and clarity, there is freshness in his perspective and a lucid presentation of ideas. This book will be of great interest as much to academics, experts on artificial intelligence, as to the general reader who wishes to know about the challenges to the human intellect and creativity in the digital age.

Author : Alexander Moreira-Almeida,Franklin Santana Santos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461406471

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Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship by Alexander Moreira-Almeida,Franklin Santana Santos Pdf

The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. And the brain-as-computer concept precludes even the remotest possibility of spirituality. As described throughout the history of humankind, seemingly spiritual mental phenomena including transcendent states, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and past-life memories have in recent years been well documented and treated scientifically. In addition, the brain-as-computer approach has been challenged by advocates of quantum brain biology, who are possibly able to explain, scientifically, nonlocal, seemingly spiritual mental states. Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship argues against the purely physical analysis of consciousness and for a balanced psychobiological approach. This thought-provoking volume bridges philosophy of mind with science of mind to look empirically at transcendent phenomena, such as mystic states, near-death experiences and past-life memories, that have confounded scientists for decades. Representing disciplines ranging from philosophy and history to neuroimaging and physics, and boasting a panel of expert scientists and physicians, including Andrew Newberg, Peter Fenwick, Stuart Hameroff, Mario Beauregard, Deepak Chopra, and Chris Clarke the book rigorously follows several lines of inquiry into mind-brain controversies, challenging readers to form their own conclusions—or reconsider previous ones. Key coverage includes: Objections to reductionistic materialism from the philosophical and the scientific tradition. Phenomena and the mind-brain problem. The neurobiological correlates of meditation and mindfulness. The quantum soul, a view from physics. Clinical implications of end-of-life experiences. Mediumistic experience and the mind-brain relationship. Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship is essential reading for researchers and clinicians across many disciplines, including cognitive psychology, personality and social psychology, the neurosciences, neuropsychiatry, palliative care, philosophy, and quantum physics. “This book ... brings together some precious observations about the fundamental mystery of the nature of consciousness ... It raises many questions that serve to invite each of us to be more aware of the uncertainty of our preconceptions about consciousness ... This book on the frontiers of mind-body relationships is a scholarly embodiment of creative and open-minded science.” C. Robert Cloninger, MD Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, and Psychology, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis MO

Author : A. Mohandas Moses
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : OCLC:1335731227

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Last Frontiers of the Mind by A. Mohandas Moses Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Income tax
ISBN : IND:30000091276844

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Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries Pdf

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107026957

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William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse by Bernadette M. Baker Pdf

An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300093186

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Diasporas of the Mind by Bryan Cheyette Pdf

In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonization, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic, and postcolonial writers.div /DIVdivCheyette regards many of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century luminaries he examines—among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark—as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries./DIV

Author : P K Singh
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789389776560

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Advancing Frontiers of Psychiatric Therapeutics by P K Singh Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213168854

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Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Earl Mac Cormac,Maxim I. Stamenov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027284891

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Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind by Earl Mac Cormac,Maxim I. Stamenov Pdf

This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities to model different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the possibility of brain and mind to implement nonlinear dynamic patterns in their functioning. The contributions discuss the following topics (among others): the edge-of-chaos dynamics in recursively organized neural systems and in intersensory interaction, the fractal timing of the neural functioning on different scales of brain networking, aspects of fractal neurodynamics and quantum chaos in novel biophysics, the fractal maximum-power evolution of brain and mind, the chaotic dynamics in the development of consciousness, etc. It is suggested that the ‘margins’ of our capacity for phenomenal experience, are ‘fractal-limit phenomena’. Here the possibilities to prove the plausibility of fractal modeling with appropriate experimentation and rational reconstruction are also discussed. A conjecture is made that the brain vs. mind differentiation becomes possible, most probably, only with the imposition of appropriate symmetry groups implementing a flowing interface of features of local vs. global brain dynamics. (Series B)

Author : John Otto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313002298

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The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930 by John Otto Pdf

An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields. Although these alluvial bottomlands contained the richest cotton soils in the American South, cotton-growers in the Southern bottomlands faced a host of environmental problems, including dense forests, seasonal floods, water-logged soils, poor transportation, malarial fevers and insect pests. This interdisciplinary approach uses primary and secondary sources from the fields of history, geography, sociology, agronomy, and ecology to fill an important gap in our knowledge of American environmental history. Requiring laborers to clear and cultivate their lands, cotton-growers recruited black and white workers from the upland areas of the Southern states. Growers also supported the levee districts which built imposing embankments to hold the floodwaters in check. Canals and drainage ditches were constructed to drain the lands, and local railways and graveled railways soon ended the area's isolation. Finally, quinine and patent medicines would offer some relief from the malarial fevers that afflicted bottomland residents, and commercial poisons would combat the local pests that attacked the cotton plants, including the boll weevils which arrived in the early twentieth century.

Author : Erik Storlie
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834800069

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Nothing on My Mind by Erik Storlie Pdf

This frank account by a longtime Zen student looks back over a journey that began in Berkeley in the heady sixties when the author experimented with psychedelics and started to study with Suzuki Roshi, who encouraged his students to find a genuine way of practicing Zen.

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415227097

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Fundamentals of Philosophy by John Shand Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major topics in philosophy designed to be used as a companion to any undergraduate philosophy course.

Author : William Henry Katerberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082652697

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Future West by William Henry Katerberg Pdf

What is the future of the American West? This book look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West.

Author : Robert G. Colodny
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1963-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822975601

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Frontiers of Science and Philosophy by Robert G. Colodny Pdf

Six essays by noted philosophers of science include the following topics: explanation in science and in history; philosophy and the scientific image of man; psychoanalysis and parapsychology; the conceptual basis of the biological sciences; the nature of time; and problems of microphysics.

Author : Mohandas Moses,Achala Moulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015080553806

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Dialogue of Civilizations by Mohandas Moses,Achala Moulik Pdf

Sir William Jones, 1746-1794, English philologist.